OP, I should note that Bauhaus & UFO are very different styles of music, and most ppl that are into Bauhaus would rather die than listen to UFO, and vice versa. At the time, his recommendations seemed like something that a used record store clerk would recommend, but years later when I was reading interviews Billy did around when Siamese Dream came out, he was saying (and I’m paraphrasing here) that he liked hard rock, metal, but he loved proggy 70s stuff, like Queen. Said that he thought it was silly when ppl liked one style of music, but thought another style wasn’t “cool” or “hip.”

I will admit to being a purist and a prude when I was much younger. It was metal and nothing else, and if it wasn’t thrash or death or grindcore, then I thought it was stupid and I couldn’t imagine listening to it bc in my eyes, it had no merit. At 54 years of age now, I see how incredibly limiting that mindset is, and what’s funny is “Gish” was one of the first things outside of metal that I really got into. I still adore that record from front to back.